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I tried hybrids way back when TaylorMade introduced the copper orange Firesole Rescue, the clubhead having been made of titanium which was still relatively new even in drivers back then. I couldn't hit it well at all, and while the success of hybrids suggests that the modern ones must be quite good, I'm perfectly happy with the 5, 7, and 9-woods. Early ones of mine were Top Flite Intimidator 400s made by Spalding... and also made of titanium, now that I think of it. I still have them in my basement. I do bag a driving iron, but it's a one-trick-pony that never sees fairway use.

The last time I played Maxfli balls, Dunlop was still making them. How long ago was that? Mostly, though, I used to play Top Flites (original 336 dimple model) when Spalding was still making them. Now I play the Pro V1x. Last time that I ordered some, Titleist was still making them. Let's see how long that lasts.

Once, on a course in Middleton, Massachusetts that I used to love but has since closed down, I hit the wrong half of a huge, UK style double green. Then I made the hundred foot putt. Tough to forget that one.

No. But if I can still play next year, I'll almost certainly be even worse. That's the reality of not being young.🙁

I use GPS; it may not be as accurate, but neither am I.

The post illustrates my incremental loft gaps, not my distance gaps. I'm aware of my specs, not worrying about them. If the loft gaps didn't work from a length perspective, I would of course change them. Since the post, in fact, they are a bit different.

Driver___________________________12.5° Driving iron_____________________18° 5-wood_________________________18° 7-wood_________________________21° 9-wood_________________________24° 5-iron___________________________27° 6-iron___________________________30° 7-iron___________________________34° 8-iron___________________________38° 9-iron___________________________42° W1______________________________48° W2______________________________53° W3______________________________58° P_________________________________3° Because I play with a top-heavy set (5 long clubs), I have bigger gaps at the short end.

No, there is a separate umbrella sleeve. Fairly common cart bag protocol is fourteen individual dividers PLUS a putter well.

Even the cart bag manufactures provide for fifteen clubs with fourteen individual full-length dividers pls a discrete putter well on many of them.

I often do, perhaps because I'm so accustomed to watching subtitled foreign language films on Netflix. Watching an English language film, I sometimes can't make out dialog otherwise.

My golf game is presently in mothballs until April, but I'll be ready to go. By this season's end, I had my first complete bag overhaul since 2009. I'm also down to a conforming fouteen clubs, which is always a plus. I managed that with 6º gaps at th short end--42° 9-iron and 48-54-60 wedge complement. After a near non-existent 2020 Covid-restrictions diminished season, the whole club is jabbed and everything got back close to normal this season. It rained most of July, but by August, I was playing somethging resembling golf for the first time in a while. GIR rate got reasonable. Doubles minimized. Looking forward to next season already.

My driver used to be my 14th club as I rarely pulled it from the bag. Now, maybe for the first time since my Titleist Howiter a cuiple of decades ago, I've got one that I can hit from four or five tees in a typical round. Thus, I no longer have a "14th" club.

I don't think that I could play without riding anymore. I enjoy walking and often do, but not eighteen holes of hilly golf.

The Formula One cars of that era were so much prettier and so much less safe. Fangio and Schumaker weren't bad either.

The best drives that I ever hit were with wooden drivers because when steel and then titanium arrived, I was already getting older. I can't imagine how it would even be possible to identify the best driver of all time, but approached as a fun subject, I imagine we'd see a nice variety of choices. I hit some transcontinental bombs with a MacGregor 945 Eye O Matic as a teenager. I'd like to try a TaylorMade Original One 13.5, but that's hard to do while sequestered at home during a pandemic. I'd also like to try a Louisville hickory set, driver to putter, just as a bucket list thing, although it would be every bit as expensive as any other brand new set from a major clubmaker. As for tube amps, I love the look of a McIntosh MC275 in a high fi set, but on a bandstand, I saw something interesting this summer. We were watching one of our favorite horn bands at an outdoor concert this summer, but as much as I love those horns, it was with the electric instruments that I noticed something. The digital piano, the clonewheel digital organ, the upright bass, and the guitar (switching between a Benedetto jazz archtop and a Tele) were all playing through identical, ultra clean Roland keyboard amps, nary a vacuum tube in sight, and they sounded awesome.